Home      Discussion      Topics      Dictionary      Almanac
Signup       Login
Marriott

Marriott

Overview
Marriott may refer to:

Corporations:
  • Marriott International
    Marriott International
    Marriott International, Inc. is a worldwide operator and franchisor of a broad portfolio of hotels and related lodging facilities. Founded by J. Willard Marriott, the company is now led by son J.W. Marriott, Jr...

    , international hotel company
  • Marriott Corporation (1929–1993), originally known as Hot Shoppes, Inc.
  • Host Marriott Corporation, food services company and lodging real estate, see Host Hotels & Resorts
    Host Hotels & Resorts
    Host Hotels & Resorts is a real estate investment trust and the owner of lodging real estate based in Bethesda, Maryland.-History:Host Hotels & Resorts was formed in 1992 when the Marriott Corporation split into two separate entities, creating Marriott International and Host Marriott...

  • Host Marriott Services
    Host Marriott Services
    Host Marriott Services Corporation ceased to be an independent company when it became HMSHost Corporation and was acquired by the Italian company Autogrill S.p.A..-History:...

    , operator of airport concession services spun off from Host Marriott Corporation


People:
  • Charles Marriott
    Charles Marriott
    Charles Stowell Marriott was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Lancashire, Cambridge University and Kent. His birth was registered as "Charlie Stowell Marriott".Marriott was one of the best leg break and googly bowlers of the 1920s and 1930s...

    , English cricketer
  • Charles Marriott (Tractarian)
    Charles Marriott (Tractarian)
    Charles Marriott was an Anglican priest, a fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, and one of the members of the Oxford Movement. He was responsible for editing more than half of the volumes of their series of translations, the Library of the Fathers....

  • Fred Marriott
    Fred Marriott
    Fred Marriott was an American race car driver. In 1906, he set the world land speed record at 127.659 mph at the Daytona Beach Road Course, while driving the Stanley Steamer...

     American race car driver
  • John Marriott (British politician), English political economist
  • John Charles Oakes Marriott
    John Charles Oakes Marriott
    Major-General Sir John Charles Oakes Marriott, KCVO, CB, DSO and Bar, MC was a British Army officer during World War I and World War II.Marriott won both the DSO and MC as well as the French Croix de Guerre fighting in World War I...

    , British Indian Army general
  • William Thackeray Marriott
    William Thackeray Marriott
    Sir William Thackeray Marriott PC QC , was a British barrister and politician.Marriott was the third son of Christopher Marriott, of Crumpsall, and his wife Jane Dorothea, daughter of John Poole, and was educated at St John's College, Cambridge...

    , British barrister and politician
  • J. Willard Marriott
    J. Willard Marriott
    John Willard Marriott was an American entrepreneur and businessman. He was the founder of the Marriott Corporation , the parent company of one of the world's largest hospitality, hotel chains and food services company. His company rose from a small root beer stand in Washington D.C...

    , founder of Marriott Corp
  • Alice Marriott
    Alice Marriott
    Alice Sheets Marriott was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist. She was married to J. Willard Marriott, founder of the hospitality company Marriott Corp.-Early life and career:...

    , entrepreneur and philanthropist
  • J.
Discussion
Ask a question about 'Marriott'
Start a new discussion about 'Marriott'
Answer questions from other users
Full Discussion Forum
 
Encyclopedia
Marriott may refer to:

Corporations:
  • Marriott International
    Marriott International
    Marriott International, Inc. is a worldwide operator and franchisor of a broad portfolio of hotels and related lodging facilities. Founded by J. Willard Marriott, the company is now led by son J.W. Marriott, Jr...

    , international hotel company
  • Marriott Corporation (1929–1993), originally known as Hot Shoppes, Inc.
  • Host Marriott Corporation, food services company and lodging real estate, see Host Hotels & Resorts
    Host Hotels & Resorts
    Host Hotels & Resorts is a real estate investment trust and the owner of lodging real estate based in Bethesda, Maryland.-History:Host Hotels & Resorts was formed in 1992 when the Marriott Corporation split into two separate entities, creating Marriott International and Host Marriott...

  • Host Marriott Services
    Host Marriott Services
    Host Marriott Services Corporation ceased to be an independent company when it became HMSHost Corporation and was acquired by the Italian company Autogrill S.p.A..-History:...

    , operator of airport concession services spun off from Host Marriott Corporation


People:
  • Charles Marriott
    Charles Marriott
    Charles Stowell Marriott was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Lancashire, Cambridge University and Kent. His birth was registered as "Charlie Stowell Marriott".Marriott was one of the best leg break and googly bowlers of the 1920s and 1930s...

    , English cricketer
  • Charles Marriott (Tractarian)
    Charles Marriott (Tractarian)
    Charles Marriott was an Anglican priest, a fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, and one of the members of the Oxford Movement. He was responsible for editing more than half of the volumes of their series of translations, the Library of the Fathers....

  • Fred Marriott
    Fred Marriott
    Fred Marriott was an American race car driver. In 1906, he set the world land speed record at 127.659 mph at the Daytona Beach Road Course, while driving the Stanley Steamer...

     American race car driver
  • John Marriott (British politician), English political economist
  • John Charles Oakes Marriott
    John Charles Oakes Marriott
    Major-General Sir John Charles Oakes Marriott, KCVO, CB, DSO and Bar, MC was a British Army officer during World War I and World War II.Marriott won both the DSO and MC as well as the French Croix de Guerre fighting in World War I...

    , British Indian Army general
  • William Thackeray Marriott
    William Thackeray Marriott
    Sir William Thackeray Marriott PC QC , was a British barrister and politician.Marriott was the third son of Christopher Marriott, of Crumpsall, and his wife Jane Dorothea, daughter of John Poole, and was educated at St John's College, Cambridge...

    , British barrister and politician
  • J. Willard Marriott
    J. Willard Marriott
    John Willard Marriott was an American entrepreneur and businessman. He was the founder of the Marriott Corporation , the parent company of one of the world's largest hospitality, hotel chains and food services company. His company rose from a small root beer stand in Washington D.C...

    , founder of Marriott Corp
  • Alice Marriott
    Alice Marriott
    Alice Sheets Marriott was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist. She was married to J. Willard Marriott, founder of the hospitality company Marriott Corp.-Early life and career:...

    , entrepreneur and philanthropist
  • J. W. Marriott, Jr., chairman and CEO, Marriott International
  • Steve Marriott
    Steve Marriott
    Stephen Peter Marriott , popularly known as Steve Marriott, was a successful and versatile English singer-songwriter, guitarist and musician....

    , English rock and roll singer


Places:
  • J. Willard Marriott Library
    J. Willard Marriott Library
    J. Willard Marriott Library is the main undergraduate and graduate library at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is dedicated to J. Willard Marriott, the founder of Marriott International. The library is over 500,000 square feet in size and houses over 3 million...

    , University of Utah
    University of Utah
    The University of Utah, also known as the U or the U of U, is a public, coeducational research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The university was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, making it Utah's oldest...

     library in Salt Lake City, Utah
  • Marriott Reef
    Marriott Reef
    Marriott Reef is a small group of granite islets, with a combined area of 3.4 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It forms part of Tasmania’s Pasco Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait off the north-west coast of Flinders Island in the Furneaux Group....

    , Tasmania, Australia
  • Marriott Theatre
    Marriott Theatre
    The Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, Illinois, USA is a respected Chicago area regional theatre.-History:Founded in December 1975, The Marriott Theatre has presented more than 170 musicals and is currently led by Executive Producer Terry James, Artistic Director Aaron Thielen, and Artistic...

    , Lincolnshire, Illinois, USA
  • Marriott School of Management
    Marriott School of Management
    The Marriott School of Management is a business school located in Provo, Utah at Brigham Young University , the largest religious and second-largest private university in the United States. Founded in 1975, the school is named for its benefactors—Marriott International founders J...

    , Provo, Utah, USA
  • Marriott, Saskatchewan, Canada
  • Marriott No. 317, Saskatchewan
    Marriott No. 317, Saskatchewan
    Marriott No. 317 is a rural municipality in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, located in Census Division 12. The seat of the municipality is located in the village of Rosetown.-Demographics:...

    , rural municipality


Events
  • 2003 Marriott Hotel bombing
    2003 Marriott Hotel bombing
    The 2003 Marriott Hotel bombing occurred on 5 August 2003 in Mega Kuningan, South Jakarta, Indonesia. A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb outside the lobby of the JW Marriott Hotel, killing twelve people and injuring 150. All those killed were Indonesian with the exception of one Dutch...

     of August 5, 2003
  • Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing
    Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing
    The Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing occurred on 20 September 2008, when a dump truck filled with explosives detonated in front of the Marriott Hotel in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, killing at least 54, injuring at least 266 and leaving a 60 ft wide, 20 ft deep crater outside the hotel...

    of September 20, 2008